Welcome Raiders to the 2020-21 school year!  This will be my fourth year at Ridgecrest and given how all of us finished the school year last year, I can assure you that we can expect better things ahead. 

Despite the challenges and the new normal that we face ahead, I still look forward to what this year will bring. We still remember how surreal the last three months of school were and we can all agree that it was a struggle at times. Nevertheless, we persevered and hopefully we all learned something new about ourselves in the process.  For this reason, I look forward to this new school year. As we approach this year with a new plan, instead of facing it with apprehension, I encourage you to face it with an open-mind, a can-do attitude and most importantly, with a sense of humor, because when all else fails and the wi-fi crashes or your work doesn’t submit correctly, we just have to laugh and move on!! 

I look forward to the time when we all can be together again in person and if we all work together and think optimistically, that time will come sooner than we think. Until then, stay safe, wear your masks, wash often and always know...LOVE YA!!